Three groups linked to clans defeated, 20 arrests of the carabinieri
(ANSA) – CATANIA, 20 SEPTEMBER – Children of about 10 years involved in drug dealing with the role of collecting the money and indicating to the ‘customers’ where to collect the narcotic substance. This is what emerges from the ‘Quadrilatero’ operation of the Catania carabinieri who arrested twenty people and vanquished three criminal groups that managed as many flourishing ‘drug shops’ The operation, called ‘Quadrilatero’, coordinated by the district anti-mafia Directorate and conducted by the company Fontanarossa from December 2018 to December 2019, shed light on a vast round of cocaine, crack and marijuana in the historic San Cristoforo district. And in particular in the ‘San Cocimo’ area, a stronghold of the affiliates of the group of the same name headed by Maurizio Zuccaro, part of the Santapaola-Ercolano mafia family. Also found an accounting book (the ‘paper of drug dealing squares’) where the proceeds of the illicit activity and the quantity of drugs sold daily were noted. Two attempted extortions were also discovered, in a pharmacy and a car dealership, and a successful one, with the ‘return horse’ method to return a stolen car to the owner. (HANDLE).